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It’s hard to believe, but today is the last day of the FABruary Style Challenge and we’re finishing with Shades of Grey. Grey is either made from mixing pure black and white, or more commonly, from mixing all colours together. This muddled up mix of colours is the reason it can be so hard [...]
Going Green Like all colours, green comes in warm and cool versions, and it’s one of the colours that really matter about the warmth or coolness and your colouring. The right green will make you look great, the wrong one, really sickly. So it’s important you can figure out if your best green is warm [...]
Sponsored by Nuffnang I remember when growing up learning about a whole load of rules, such as “blue and green should never be seen” and “don’t mix prints”, but I have found during my time as an image consultant and stylist that these rules are made to be broken. Many of my clients are scared [...]
Today I’m covering the next three FABruary Style Challenge subjects Blue Blue by imogenl featuring a silk shell top Blues, like most colours can be warmer or cooler. Because blue is naturally a cool colour (as it has a blue undertone), those who are cool will find they can wear a wider range [...]
Playing with colour is so much fun. Today I’ve mixed together a combination I’ve never tried before. I had planned to put on a different outfit, either a jacket or coloured jeans, but it’s just too hot here for a longer sleeved layer so I had to layer a cami under my t-shirt instead. There [...]
I’m often asked if there is such a thing as Universal Colours – the colours that suit everyone. People ask me if black is one – sadly it is not as it’s colour properties are – cool, deep and bright – so if you are warm, light or muted in your colouring, black is really [...]
Today Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I are talking in this short video about how your colouring changes as you age, and therefore how the colours that suit you may change over your lifetime.
Following on from our video a couple of weeks back on finding your signature colours, I was asked to share some photos of other people and their signature colours. Finding Your Signature Colours Lip colours – what are the colours most closely related to your lips? Natural blush colours – which colours bring out your [...]
Today Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I discuss how to combine colours to create harmonious outfits in this short video.
Have you ever wondered what your signature colours are? How you can figure out what they might be? In this short video with Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I discuss signature colours and how to wear them. Did you know that one of your signature colours is the best colour for those multipurpose [...]
